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Seismic activity in the Keilir and Askji areas
The Scientific Council on Civil Protection met yesterday at a regular meeting to discuss seismic activity in the Reykjanes peninsula and the Askja region. As of September 27, tremors have been ongoing southwest of Keilir, at the northern end of the igneous tunnel that formed earlier this year and erupted at Fagradalsfjall. About 2,000 earthquakes…
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The first woman to head the Icelandic Football Association
Vanda Sigurgeirsdóttir became the first woman head of KSÍ, the Icelandic Football Association, on Saturday, according to mbl.is. She is the only woman who currently heads a football association out of UEFA’s 55 national teams. Debbie Hewitt was appointed head of the England Football Association in June, but her term will not start until January…
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Tax gets the chance against dividend backers in U.S. court
The IRS has been granted the opportunity to bring a series of trial cases against a number of ringleaders in the dividend tax case to find out whether the cases can be brought before a US court. It writes Politiken. According to the newspaper, there is a law in the United States that says U.S.…
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Frida Boisen: My daughter was furious when she read the book
Frida Boisen about her dark childhood
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Three researchers share the Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 has been shared between researchers working with models to predict global warming and the interplay between planetary systems. Half the prize is shared between Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on “physical modeling of the Earth’s climate, quantification of variability and predictable global warming.” The other half…
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About a thousand people quarantined in Akureyri
In Akureyri, 78 people have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and nearly 1,000 people have been quarantined. Work at the school was severely disrupted and the sports tournament to be held this weekend was postponed. The Minister of Health is currently reviewing a new memorandum sent to him yesterday by an epidemiologist. The number of…
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Xinhua World News Summary 1530 GMT, October 5
BRUSSELS – The Council of the European Union (EU) on Tuesday approved the start of negotiations on an agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom (Great Britain) on Gibraltar. The Council openly provided information on talks as well as the negotiating directives. On this basis, the European Commission can now enter into formal negotiations…
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Review of vehicle purchase and conversion aid – consultation begins
According to the proposal, subsidies and conversion support for battery-powered electric vehicles and gas-powered trucks will continue from 2022. New forms of support include support for the purchase of electric and gas vans and support for the purchase of electric cars. The subsidies would speed up the transition to low-emission electric and gas-powered vehicles, which…
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Copenhagen has the two best restaurants in the world
Geranium timber closer Medkøbenhavn’s restaurant Geranium, which finished fifth last time, ended up securing its best result ever at the awards and finished second. Together with Noma, Geranium was recently awarded three stars in the prestigious Michelin Guide Nordic Countries in 2021. There were also Danish representatives in the top 100, including visionary Copenhagen experience…
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EU environment ministers discuss EU climate package and prepare for Glasgow conference on climate change
In July 2021, the Commission published a comprehensive package of proposals for climate legislation. The proposals in the Fit for 55 package implement the obligation of European climate law to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels. Environment ministers will discuss legislative proposals under the responsibility of the…
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Sweden’s most hated hockey team?
By: Sebastian Hedlund Producer: Siri von Malmborg
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Covid exacerbated the situation for victims of domestic violence, the study notes
Those who have experienced intimate partner violence found it more difficult to seek and get help for these problems during the Covid crisis, according to a recent study. A joint research project between the Department of Health and Welfare and the Universities of Tampere and Turku found that isolation at home during Covid-related telework and…
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Parkinson’s disease: New treatment gives hope
Stem cell research has been going on since the 1980s, but the breakthrough is that researchers can now use stem cells from embryos and direct them towards dopamine cells. – We replace the cells that have been lost with new healthy cells. It is neither a cure nor a brake, but it is a different…
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More public housing for 8000 in large cities
She announced that the government will make it possible to build over 20,000 new public housing in the major Danish cities in the next 10 to 15 years. The new homes should typically be 80-90 square meters, and the rent should be around 8000 per month. The goal is for families with ordinary incomes to…
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The Prime Minister promises shorter for the hospital
However, Mette Frederiksen left patients, doctors and members of the Folketing without very tangible information in her speech. – Centralization affects us all. There are also citizens in Copenhagen’s Vestegn who miss the local police, and here are also challenges with medical coverage. – More needs to get closer. We are in the process, said…
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The school bus collides with a track maintenance vehicle, 8 hospitalizations
The driver of seven young people and a bus was hospitalized after a railway accident in Kaskinen, Ostrobothnia, on Tuesday morning. The accident happened shortly before eight in the morning at an unguarded level crossing that the local mayor said was known to be dangerous. Police are investigating the accident as a serious threat to…
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Management did not take 112 issue seriously until after the press release
– It is my impression that the management of the Emergency Preparedness has been familiar with the conditions over the summer, but there has been a lack of sufficient recognition of what this has meant for the employees and ultimately the entire Emergency Preparedness, writes medical adviser Mads Koch Hansen in the statement. He has…
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HUS will begin publishing the vaccination status of hospitalized Covid patients
The Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) has begun to publish the vaccination status of Covid-19 patients who have been hospitalized for the disease. The information – reported as a proportion of patients who have received one, two or no Covid vaccines – updated weekly on Tuesdays. The HUS urged everyone to get vaccinated against…
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Danish News Round-Up: Third plug to be offered to over 65s, frontline workers and the chronically ill
The National Board of Health’s health authority prepares plans to offer all fully vaccinated in Denmark a third plug, starting with over 65s, health professionals in the front line and chronically ill. Many residents and workers in nursing homes have already been stabbed for the third time along with people over 85 years since October…
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Pak shares Western military technology with China, warns IAF chief
New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): Clarified that there was nothing to fear from the Sino-Pak partnership at the global or regional level, Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari on Tuesday warned Western countries against providing weapons systems to Islamabad as it shares its military technology with Beijing. The IAF chief…
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Facebook services online again when suspended due to configuration changes to trunk routers
“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes to the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between server centers caused problems that interrupted this communication. This network traffic disruption had a staggered effect on our data center communication, which brought our service to a halt,” the engineers said. “Our services are now online and we…
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Suicide doctor says police have charged him
On 23 September, the Funen Police stated that the district had launched an investigation into Svend Lings, after several media outlets wrote that he continued to advise people on how they could commit suicide. This despite the fact that he has been convicted of it in both the city, county and Supreme Court. Funen Police…
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Loud may lose broadcasting license if not corrected
– We are willing to use the law fully, so much I can say. But I do not want to say anything about what the probability is for that, says board chairman and law professor at CBS Søren Sandfeld Jakobsen. The board also has the option of using mild sanctions such as issuing new injunctions.…
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FACTS: The government wants to make it easier to borrow in rural areas
Here are five entries in the law catalog: * More money for the elderly and children: In October, the Welfare Act will be introduced. It must ensure that the money for welfare automatically follows when there are more children and the elderly. * Rural housing loans: In November, proposals will be made to make it…
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Heunicke offers regions money for maternity wards
If the Danish regions need more money for the maternity wards at the hospitals, the government will, according to Minister of Health Magnus Heunicke (S), “not hesitate to give them”. He says this in an interview with the magazine Femina. – If the regions tell us that they need extraordinary funds to be able to…
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Employee at treatment center convicted of sexual abuse
In addition, he will be banned from being employed or running a business that deals with treatment for the next two years. And then he has to pay 25,000 kroner in compensation to the victim. The man who has pleaded not guilty has, through his lawyer, asked for time to consider any appeal.
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Another body part found at waste incineration in Greenland
The police have no suspects in the case yet and therefore have no arrests either. But the new finding can hopefully form a breeding ground for a breakthrough in the case, according to the Greenland Police. The police come at the same time with a call for any witnesses. – If the citizens of Ilulissat…
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Thulesen hears bullshit in Mette F.’s calls on social media
In the speech, the Prime Minister warned against a fragmented dialogue on social media, which will be a challenge, as the conversation can be vitamin-poor and superficial. – Honestly, during the corona, where did she herself communicate to the Danes? Has she not just communicated on Facebook and Instagram, and she has not wanted to…
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2nd LD-Writethru: 3 researchers share the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
STOCKHOLM, October 5 (Xinhua) – The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 is shared by three researchers, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 “for pioneering contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems,” with half in common…
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Police action in 2019 resulted in several terrorist cases
The defendants in the case were arrested in connection with a police operation on 11 December 2019. Here, the police arrested about 20 people, several of whom have been released again. The action resulted in three cases, which in total ended with the indictment of six people – one of whom has been convicted: Case…
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Finnish security expert: Concentration of online services in Silicon Valley is a weak point
Research Manager of F-Secure, a Finnish cyber security company, Mikko Hyppönen, said the long Facebook outage on Monday was exceptional. The social media platforms Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp were away for about six hours on Monday night Finnish time. The problem also affected companies that use Facebook as a login service, as well…
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Denmark: A group of Icelanders were arrested
In the middle of last month, in Copenhagen, a group of Icelanders suspected of the assault were arrested. Two of them were detained for more than two weeks, and one has already been charged. According to information from the news agency, the assault took place in Copenhagen on the weekend of 17-19. September. As a…
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Cross-vaccinated Danes are now offered a third sting
Cross-vaccinated Danes are now offered a third plug with an mRNA vaccine against covid-19. It writes the National Board of Health in a press release. In the spring, a large part of the frontline staff in the healthcare system was vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine and then an mRNA vaccine. The third plug is offered…
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